Samir Bangara

Mumbai, Maharashtra IN

Co-founder, MD

Technology / Software / Internet

I started my career in venture capital with IL&FS Venture corporation and moved on to being an investment banker focused on the tech space with Ernst & Young, where I drove several US sell side mandates in the IT services BPO and wireless sector. In 2005 I joined Indiagames - a company that I had been involved with in the seed funding round and then as a banker leading the exit of the early investors to Tom online (a Hutchison group company). As Chief Operating Officer of Indiagames I was responsible for strategy, operations and business of the company growing it from about $3m in gross sales to about a $60m in gross sales by 2012 Along the way the company pivoted a few times from